Sucheta (सुचेता) combines the Sanskrit su (good) and cheta (consciousness). **Sucheta Kripalani (1908-1974)** was the **first woman to serve as Chief Minister of an Indian state** (Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967). **A close associate of Gandhi during the Quit India Movement (1942)**, she went underground to organize resistance. **Sang Vande Mataram in the Indian Constituent Assembly on August 15, 1947** — the moment of Indian independence.
Featured in Indian constitutional history.
Sucheta reduces to four — the number of first female CM.